Harness-buckle shield



(No Model.)

- JP. SGOLLAY.

HARNESS BUGKLB SHIELD'.

No. 830,429. Patented Nov. 17, 1885.

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NiTn STATES PATENT Trice.

JOHN PIER-SON SCOLLAY, OF LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS..

HARNESS-BUCKLE SHIELD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,429, dated November 17 1885.

Application filed August 3, 1885. Serial No. 173,356. (No modell) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN PInRsoN SooLLAY, of Lawrence, in the county of Essex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful improvement in Harness-Buckle Shields; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which- Flgure l is a top View, Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 an edge view, ofa combined buckle-shield and buckle of my invention. Fig. 4is a top view, Fig. 5 a bottom View, and Fig. 6 a transverse section, of the said shield and buckle.

The nature of my invention is duly defined in the claim hereinafter set forth.

The article constituting my said invention is designed for use as a buckle, with a shield to its tongue to prevent the hairs of the tail of a horse from being caughtby the tongue. In some respects it is like the buckle-shield shown and described in the United States Patent N o. 222,720, although differing therefrom in'others. It consists, primarily, of an arched plate having not only a stud projecting downwardly from it at its middle, but two slots arranged in it transversely at its opposite ends. It also has a flange extending down from it at each of its two opposite longer edges or sides.

In the drawings, the said archedV plate is shown at A, its stud or tongue at a, the slots at b c, and the lianges at d d. The tongue or stud is inclined to the plate in a direction toward the strap B, to which the shield is applied as a buckle is usually xed to its carrying-strap, such strap being furnished with a loop, e, to receive the strapC, provided with a series of bucklingholes, f. The said strap C goes through both the slots b e and between the flanges d d, and receives in one of the holes f the tongue a, the strap being inserted through the loop e.

From the above it will be seen that the shield with its slots and tongue answers the purpose of a buckle as well as a shield for the tongue thereof, and that the iianges,lby extending down by the opposite edges of the buckling-strap, shield them and the tongue, so as to prevent the hairs of the tail of a horse While being switched from catching on the tongue or between the strap and the plate.

By hooking or inclining the tongue in the' direction as stated the strap C is better prevented from accidentaily getting out of engagelnent with the tongue than would be the case werethe tongue not so inclined.

I do not claim a shield to be used .separately from a buckle and consisting of an arched plate having a slot extending across it near each of its ends, such plate being also open at its middle, all being essentially as represented in the aforesaid United States patent; nor do I claim either of the devices shown and described in either of the United States patents Nos.136,766, 268,781, 270,680, and 291,846, for neither is provided with a hook orl inclined tongue or stud arranged with it, as is the hook or hooked stud c with the arched and slotted plate A, hereinbefore described.

I claim* As an improved article of manufacture, the harness buckle shield substantially as described, consisting of the arched plate A, having the transverse slots b and c, and the side anges, d, arranged as represented, and the tongue a, extending down from such plate at its middle and hooked or inclined relatively thereto, as set forth.

JOHN PIERSON SCOLLAY.

Witnesses:

Pl. H. EDDY, ERNEsT B. PRATT. 

